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Chapter 11 - Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia   Disorder marked by breakdown in cognitive, emotional and behavioral functions. A rare but devestating illness.  
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What are delusions?   Extremely irrational beliefs remain despite lack of supporting evidence.  
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Most common types of delusions   Delusion of persecution, reference, being controlled, grandeur, thought broadcasting and thought insertion.  
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Thought Disorder   Breakdown in processing of thoughts which leads to distorted speech. Distorted speech is however not unique for Schizophrenia.  
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Tangential speech   When a person goes on a tangin before getting to the point  
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Loose associations   When a person goes on a tangin without reaching a point.  
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Poverty of Speech   Very vague speech, usually slow and convey very little info.  
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Thought Blocking   When a person starts talking then suddenly stops.  
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Neologisms   Made up words  
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Perseveration   Repeating things.  
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Clanging   Saying a string of words that all rhyme.  
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Hallucinations   Perception that occurs in the absence of external stimuli.  
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What is the most common hallucination?   Auditory  
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Variations in auditory hallucinations   3rd person commentary and command hallucinations.  
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Anhedonia   Inability to experience pleasure. No change in mood.  
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Flat Affect   Behavior that doesn't express any change in mood. Voice and expressions usually just stayes flat.  
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Inappropriate Affect   Example: Laughing at a funeral.  
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Avolition   Inability to persist in goal-directed behavior.  
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Catatonia   Posturing or mannerisms. Example, freezing in a posture for an hour.  
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Negativistic Catatonia   Staying at a posture and being very stiff, almost impossible to move.  
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Waxy flexibility Catatonia   Staying at a postire and being very flexible and moveable.  
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Echolalia   Repeating what people say to you  
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Echopraxia   Repeating, immitating motormovements.  
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Positive symptoms   Added behavior that wasn't present in the person's life before Schizophrenia.  
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Negative symptoms   Missing behavior that was present before in a person before Schizophrenia Example: flat affect.  
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Psychosis versus Schizophrenia   Psychosis: Problems with knowing what is reality and what is not. Schizophrenia: a psychotic disorder because it makes people have difficulties with knowing what's reality and what's not.  
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Diagnosis of Schizophrenia   1.Two or more over a month: Delusions, hallucinations, disordered speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, negative symptoms. 2.Marked impairment in fuctioning 3.Signs of disorder for 6 months 4.symptoms not due to drugs or medical conditions.  
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Paranoid Type   1.one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallicinatiosn 2.delusional tend to be around a theme. Example: persecution, grandeur, jealousy.  
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Disorganized Type   Disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, flator inappropriate affect. Delusions tend to be disorganized (religious or sexual. Often neglect hygiene.  
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Catatonic Type   Impaired motor behavior. Periods of stupor or catalepsy. Behavioral negativism. Posturing or mannerisms. Echolalia or echopraxia. Excessive, purposeless behavior.  
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Undifferentiated type   Major symptoms of schizophrenia but doesn't fit in one preticular type. Might fit on none or in many.  
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Residual Type   Person who used to have schizophrenia and recovered but still have symptoms but not enough for full schizophrenic diagnosis.  
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Brief psychotic disorder   One of more positive symptoms of schizophrenia that lasts less than a month and is caused by trauma orextreme stress.  
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Folie a deux (Shared psychotic disorder)   Delusions due to living with someone else with delusions. Little is known about this condition.  
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Genetic factors for Schizophrenia   Family studies and twin studies where made to determine the cause of Schizophrenia and it whowed that there is a genetic factor to the illness. The more genes you share with a person with schizophrenia, the bigger the risk is that you get it.  
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Prevelenace of Schizophrenia amongst the general population   3%  
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The prevelance of Schizophrnia. Monozygotic twins versus fraternal twins.   If a monozygotic twin has schizophrenia, there is a 48% that the other one will get it. If a fraternal twin has schizophrenia there is only a 17% chance that the other one will get it.  
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Environmental factors   There are proof that says that the environment can play an important factor to the cause of Schizophrenia. Ex: Not both of monozygotic twins have to get it. Spouses of person with schizophrenia can get it, as well as half siblings.  
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Studies of the Offsrping of twins   Cildren fall in 1 of 4 groups. 4 groups: either the twins are 1.identical or 2.fraternal, either 3.parent had schizophrenia or 4.twin of parent had schizophrenia.  
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Result of studies of the offspring of twins   Three groups were the same: mom has schizophrenia but moms identical twin doesnt, mom doesn't but moms identical twin does, mom has but moms fraternal doesnt. The only one that was radically less was: moms fraternal twin does but mo doesn't.  
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Search for behavioral markers of schizophrenia   Smooth-pursuit eye movement. Tracking an object with head still: eyes move jerky. And many of their relatives!  
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Dopamine Hypothesis   Antipsychotic drug. Drugs found to reduce posative symptoms, they blockes action of neurostransmitters. Conclusion: schizophrenia related to too much dopamine activity. Proof: drugs that increase dopamine cab produce schizophrenic symptoms.  
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Biochemical factors: Brain absnormalities   3 of 4 adults with schizophrenia show loss of brain tissue. Evidence: enlarged ventricles and reduced brain tissue volume.  
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Hypofrontality in Pre-frontal cortex   Prefrontal cortex handles planning, expresses emotions and appropriate social functioning and organizes though processes. Hypofrontality decreases brain activity in pre-frontal cortex. This occurs with schizophrenia: could explain negative sympotms.  
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Schizophrenia caused by flu?   Severe flu during 2nd trimester can results in a higher risk of schizophrenia for child.  
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Stress causes Schizophrenia   Stress may activate underlying vulerability and or increase risk of relapse.  
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Family interactions: Expressed emotions   Low tolerance and empathy for the ill family member can result in relapse. Living in a hostile and critical household increase relapse. Ex: patient with EE 50% and patient without EE 14%  
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Diathesis-Stress model   Diathesis is the predisposition to develop schizophrenia, most often biological. Stess combined with the diathesis can lead to schizophenia  
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Historical medical treatments   Lobotomy, electroconvulsive therapy, insulin shock therapy (induse seizures and then coma, when the patient wakes up he is supposebly treated.)  
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Antipsychotic medication   Ex. Haldol, Thorazine, Stelazine. They block dopamine receptors in the brain. They primarily help positive symptoms.  
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Short term Side effects of antipsychotic medication   Extrapyramidal side effects (parkinson-like) such as stiff muscles and spasms  
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Long term die effects of antipsychotic medication   1 in 4 develop Tardive Dyskinsesia (TD). Involuntary movements (face, mouth, neck, arms, legs)  
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Individual and group psychotherapy   Focus on stress reduction, social skills, dealing with criticism, and medication compliance  
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